Jim, I noticed your patch to prebaseconfig for this bug. I wonder if closing the bug report there is really the right thing to do, since the real bug seems to be in the kernel, doesn't it? I can reproduce this on my ia64. The comment says that "50prebaseconfig" (really it's 50register-module) adds modules in file name sort order. But really it adds them in whatever order they were registered. hw-detect is careful about the order, but makes an i386 centric assumption (which may not even be correct there) -- that ide-detect and ide-generic will be enough to make most CD drives work. The cmd64x module is not registered in /etc/modules at all. We rarely see this case on i386 because it only happens if the system has a scsi hard drive and ide cd; if the hard drive is ide then the kernel's initrd takes care of loading all the appropriate ide modules in the right order. I think that it might be good to hunt down the used ide driver(s) using the method you found on i386 too, and register-module those drives before ide-detect and ide-generic, so they get loaded first. This could be done in hw-detect. It's probably too late to make this change for sarge and so I see your prebaseconfig hack as a suitable workaround for now. -- see shy jo
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